… The choir brought warmth and barely contained passion to it, evoking the beauty of the text exactly as it requires. Bath Chronicle, 10/2009

… Music to be remembered and treasured, performed by these gifted singers with style and artistry. Bath Chronicle

… a quite magnificent performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

… well nigh perfect … seamlessly, beautifully balanced and poised.

… a remarkable tour de force.

… The singers … slipped effortlessly between the centuries. Bath Chronicle

Previous Seasons

2008 Season

Saturday 8 March St Alphege Church, Oldfield Lane, Bath • 7.30pm

Warum?
- Tomàs Luis de Victoria Motets & Responsories
- Knut Nystedt O Crux & Die Güte des Herrn
- Johannes Brahms Warum?
- Hugo Wolf Six Sacred Songs
- Trond Kverno Stabat Mater
- Thomas Weelkes Motets & Anthems
A programme exploring the complex and varied emotions of the seasons of Lent and Easter – grief and anguish, hope and despair, joy and exultation. At its centre are two warmly expressive late Romantic works, written within two years of each other. Both move from dark to light: Brahms’s funeral motet, with its opening movement of searing anguish, is the more overtly dramatic, Wolf’s sacred songs more elegiac in mood. Either side of these come approachable contemporary pieces from Norway: two short, dramatic works by Nystedt, the founding father of Norwegian choral music, and a contemplative setting of the Stabat Mater by Kverno. Bracketing the concert are 16th-century motets, again contrasting in style: Victoria’s warmly flowing polyphony represents for many the acme of late Renaissance style, while Thomas Weelkes is one of the most underrated, and under-performed, masters of Elizabethan choral music.

Tickets £10, concessions £9
from Bath Festivals Box Office • 01225 463362